Potpourri

historyofeurope:

This is Hever Castle in Kent, England.
It was the childhood home of Anne Boleyn, 2nd wife of Henry VIII, but eventually was given to Anne of Cleves, Henry VIII’s 4th wife.
In 1903 it was bought by William Waldorf Astor, an American millionaire, who restored it to use as a family residence.
It is now open to the public.

This is Hever Castle in Kent, England.

It was the childhood home of Anne Boleyn, 2nd wife of Henry VIII, but eventually was given to Anne of Cleves, Henry VIII’s 4th wife.

In 1903 it was bought by William Waldorf Astor, an American millionaire, who restored it to use as a family residence.

It is now open to the public.

cabinporn:

Wooden buildings often aren’t arbitrarily red.

Falu red (pronounced “FAH-loo”, in Swedish it’s Falu rödfärg) is the name of a Swedish, deep red paint well known for its use on wooden cottages and barns for preservation. The paint originated from the copper mine at Falun in Dalarna, Sweden and consists of water, rye flour, linseed oil and tailings from the copper mines of Falun which contain silicates iron oxides, copper compounds and zinc. Falu red is still widely used in the Swedish countryside.

Photo by Anna Ådén.

stevenandspice:

London, 1940s, in hi-res colour. These photographs were taken using Kodachrome film by the improbably and wonderfully named Chalmers Butterfield, probably in 1949. Via How To Be a Retronaut.

I definitely want to read this.

wwnorton:

“Shakespeare scholar Stephen Greenblatt’s new offering is a love letter to books.”
—The Daily Beast reviews The Swerve, Finalist for the 2011 National Book Award